Helena Pallarés is a Paris-based illustrator whose work has been featured in The Washington Post, Glamour, Libération, and Madame Figaro, among others.
Certain lives are harder to tell. The mind spans a great distance: the worn shag carpet of his boyhood, where Jimmy would lay reading from the ragged set of plays; college nights playing chess, wrapped in the plaid robe he’d bought in town...
Sarah sits at the table by the open door, stacking coins, each squat pillar an allotment for their household. Rifle and wire, seed and sugar, tack and horseshoe, tobacco and flour, and—God forbid—the doctor. Sarah tells Thomas she’s...
Today I count the number of times I unlock my phone. I have opened my phone 473 times today. Is this a lot? Do other people count how many times they look at their phones? What does this mean? What does this say about me? Often, I unlock my...
